by Nancy McKay | Apr 19, 2020 | Courage, Emotions, Empowerment, Fear, Insight, inspiration, Living Authentically, Recovery, Self-compassion, Values
Are You Too Embarrassed to Ask for Help? Are you too embarrassed to ask for help? I was! I’m going to give you something today that will help you get out of embarrassment and into relief. First of all, quitting drinking was the BEST DECISION I’VE EVER MADE!! For...
by Nancy McKay | Apr 12, 2020 | Challenges, Empowerment, Fear, Feelings, Insight, inspiration, Recovery, Self-compassion
What’s Everyone Going to Think? Do you worry about what other people will think of you? Does that impact your actions? It did for me! On one hand, I didn’t want to alienate my drinking “buddies”, so I didn’t want to admit I...
by Nancy McKay | Apr 5, 2020 | Challenges, Courage, Emotions, Fear, Feelings, inspiration, Recovery, Self-compassion, The Law of Attraction
Are You Drinking to Escape? It doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you LIKE the reasons why you’re doing it! Two schools of thought: Now is NOT the time to add to your stress by trying to change a behavior, OR Now is the BEST time to...
by Nancy McKay | Mar 1, 2020 | Challenges, Courage, Fear, inspiration, Recovery, Self-compassion
Why alcohol is killing us… Research shows the growing use and abuse of alcohol by women. As a result, alcohol is killing us. It almost killed me. Drinking has become so much a part of the female culture we no longer even aware of how widespread it is, or look at...
by Nancy McKay | Feb 16, 2020 | Challenges, Courage, Dreams, Empowerment, Fear, Feelings, Forgiveness, Insight, inspiration, Living Authentically, Recovery, Self-compassion
“Horses change lives. They give our young people confidence and self-esteem. They provide peace and tranquility to troubled souls – they give us hope!” ~ Toni Robinson You’ll discover yourself, because horses just don’t lie Horses always respond positively...
by Nancy McKay | Feb 2, 2020 | Challenges, Courage, inspiration, Recovery, Self-compassion
We’re Only As Sick As Our Secrets Are you keeping a secret? Keeping Secrets Can Hurt Us… You hear “We’re only as sick as our secrets” a lot in the recovery community. It means that any secret we keep in the dark grows and becomes more harmful. Once...